Dawn explores new business model
Business Reporter Dawn Properties has started exploring a business model that leverages on the balance sheet in a bid to unlock value after recording a 14 percent slump in revenue…
Black unemployment still a crisis
Less than half of working-age people in South Africa are employed, with black people still bearing most of the brunt of unemployment, the South African Institute for Race Relations latest…
Silicon Valley’s secretive start-up raises $880m
Palantir Technologies, an ultra-secretive “big data” start-up in Silicon Valley, has raised a whopping $880 million, according to a filing from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday.
Huawei hits 100m smartphones in 2015
BEIJING. – The Huawei Consumer Business Group shipped more than 100-million smartphones worldwide in 2015. Over the last five years, shipments of Huawei’s smartphones have increased more than 3 000 percent,…
Players boycott camp
LAHORE. — Pakistan cricket yesterday braced for another storm when former Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez and current one-day skipper Azhar Ali refused to train with tainted paceman Mohammad Amir in…
90pc shop at informal markets: Deloitte
South African brands dominate the formal African retail landscape, but around 90 percent of Africa’s population still shops at informal markets, supporting informal traders rather than formal shopping centres, according…
Schools insure against storms
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau At least 58 schools in Mhondoro-Ngezi district have taken up insurance cover against natural disasters following a series of storms that have swept off roofs and…
Crying will not help the black race
Ejike Okpa II Correspondent Whoever inserted in the Bible; this is my understanding of it – no prophet has honour in their own village, did study the black race, be they…
China overshadows global outlook for 2016
LONDON. — Over the past year China has put its mark on the world economy as never before. Not only did the Chinese economic slowdown inflict considerable pain on energy and…
President promotes 13 ZPCS officers
Samantha Chigogo Herald Correspondent President Mugabe has promoted 13 Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Assistant Commissioners to Senior Assistant Commissioners and 218 others to ranks of Assistant Commissioners, Chief…

